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I played rdr2 before rdr1 and let me tell you hearing John wheeze after being shot dozens of times and sounding just like Arthur struggling to breathe and wheeze on that cliff side made me lose my shit
yugis just so glad to see setos alive!! going doki doki and staring at him with them big ol eyes (yugi is so small). its a very hopeful and cute scene.
and then this very earnest question
"kaiba-kun! did nothing change (for you) at all? are you the same as before...?"
yugi just wants to befriend him ;-; he believes in seto so much. the sincerity of this scene grips my heart and crushes it. Im in tears.
yugi can have little crush on seto 🤭 I'll allow it. so cute.
also btw.
seto explains duel disk tech and jounouchi, not understanding, just calls it "battle instant yakisoba". I was so baffled by this but I think thats what takahashi-sensei actually intended lmao
I think its because the squares look like the containers???? and then the steam rising would be the monsters manifest―idk I researched and every source says jounouchi just doesnt understand and blurts out something more nonsensical. thats it thats all, take it at face value!!
this duel disk version is meme-ingly called "battle instant yakisoba type"
My brother and I were once again joking around about characters from our favorite movies, and we were pretending to be Ethical Bug and Big Jack Horner. And I, as Big Jack Horner, quoted one of my favorite moments from The Game Grumps. After I said it, my brother and I lost our shit. 🤣
Sun Wukong: "Take in everything! Choose what you want to do, and then do it! That is focus."
1x07 Impossible Delivery
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Mei: “It’s okay MK—we got this! We can beat her-”
MK: “-She beat the Monkey King Mei! We don’t got this!”
“I’m sorry- I just- I don’t know what to do.”
(2x00 Revenge of the Spider Queen)
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MK: "Well, I'm not the Monkey King, okay!
Mirror MK: "You're right. You're the Monkie Kid! You got to figure out your own way to win. So do it."
(2x00 Revenge of the Spider Queen)
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Mirror MK: "No, no, stop! What are you doing?"
(2x05 Minor Scale)
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MK: "What if he knows he made a mistake, chose wrong—chose the wrong successor!"
Sun Wukong (?): "-And, what if he did?"
MK: "Ugh, this again? Look- I know you're not really here. I've been doing what you told me to do—believing in myself, blah blah blah. But, I'm not ready for this. I can't face the Lady Bone Demon alone. I just feel so-"
(2x07 Shadow Play)
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Lady Bone Demon: “Now do you understand? From the start you never had what it took to defeat me. All your power could do was make me stronger.”
(2x10 The End is Here!)
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MK: "WAIT! No! What are you doing?"
(2x10 The End is Here!)
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MK: "What do you-"
Macaque: "-want, what are you doing?"
(3x04 The Winning Side)
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Macaque: “Ohohoh! What a hero! Two friends about to be crushed, and you do nothing?”
(3x04 The Winning Side)
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Ne Zha: "The ritual? They've started the ritual! Sun Wukong, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?"
(3x09 The King, the Prince, and the Shadow)
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Macaque: “So this was the Monkey King’s great plan? How do you still not see that he has no idea what he’s doing? How about this for a plan: stay down MK, or I will put you down.”
(3x09 The King, the Prince, and the Shadow)
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MK: “Mei! You have to stop. I know you’re upset, and that’s okay! I know what it’s like to have a power you don’t know how to control—to feel like the fate of the world is in your hands and you have no idea what to do! But you always have my back, and help me through it. We, will figure this out! Together!”
(3x10 The Samadhi Fire)
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Mei: “Wukong knew the risks. It’s what he would do if he had too. That’s the hard part of being a hero.”
(3x12 The Corrupted King)
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MK: “I don’t know if all of this happened because it was destined too. But I have to believe that I found the staff so that I could use it for good. To help people. So that’s exactly what I’m going to do. I’m gonna take my staff, and protect! this! world!”
(3x14 Destiny Fulfilled)
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Mei: "No! What is he doing? Move! Before it's too late!"
(4x05 Court of the Yellow Robed Demon)
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Sun Wukong: "We live with the choices we’ve made, for what matter is the choices we make RIGHT NOW! Only we decide who we are and what we do with the power we have.”
(4x07 Pitiful Creatures)
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Azure Lion: “You saw it with your own eyes! His betrayal, his brutality—he took the only friends I had from me. I would have done anything in my power to bring them back. But it wasn’t in my power—it was in yours.”
(4x08 The Brother Hood)
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Macaque: "Point is, it’s time to start making your own choices—something I wish I would have learned a lot sooner than I did. You don’t want to fight Azure because people might get hurt, you don’t want to not fight him because people might get hurt–so do something else! Only you get to decide who you are kiddo.”
(4x10 The Jade Emperor)
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I'm dying. What you can do vs are doing vs have done. For real.
That Time Mat Went Batshit- Desi Edition! (Part 2/???)
Remember when I promised I would rant about the lack of rep for desi kids? Well, in my journalism class, we were told to write an opinion piece and oh BOY do I have some opinions.
Anywhosies. I hope I made y'all proud.
Growing up, seeing people who looked like me in the media was like seeing a unicorn: it’s impossible.
And it was the same for any Indian kid up until…. 2018, when we got the first of five installments of the Aru Shah series.
In fact, if you look on Goodreads, under the “Top Five Indian Character Books,” all five books will be from… Roshani Chokshi’s Aru Shah Quintet.
Now, it’s not a secret that this is harmful to kids- not only of Indian descent but everyone else too! Western media consistently portrays South Asian characters with harmful stereotypes with caricature-like personalities that haven’t been updated since the 50’s- and in 2023? It looks a little basic.
Now, I’ve talked a lot about books, and while they’re important, they’re not the biggest piece of media people consume.
That would be tv shows.
The MCU’s Ms. Marvel and Netflix’s Never Have I Ever are the only two American tv shows made for a younger audience with South Asian main characters.
“But Mat, why can’t people just until they’re older and then watch all the American tv shows with Indian characters?”
Because by the time people are 30 and can afford a Netflix subscription, the harmful stereotypes will have already set it, and then South Asian people will only exist as the nerdy, ‘sure, I can hack into this complicated database in under 30 seconds for you,’ people.
And the fact of the matter is- hacking takes a really long time! And Indians are chronic over-achievers! They will break under this stress.
Jokes aside, though, representation is so important, and one piece of media that makes a little kid feel seen can change a whole life. Media corporations and publishing companies must do better for this next generation of kids coming up, because generational unimportance and trauma will follow them if they cannot see themselves on pages and on the screen.